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Review of Violin & Piano Works

Violin & Piano Works

It’s obvious from the first notes of the Monti Csárdás that Katharine Gowers is an accomplished violinist with a clean...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 6/2007

Review of Nørgård Choral Works

Nørgård Choral Works

Wie ein Kind (1979-80) is probably Nørgård’s best-known – certainly most often recorded – choral work; usually presented in all-Danish...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 5/2003

Review of Janácek Orchestral Works, Vol. 3

Janácek Orchestral Works, Vol. 3

Each of the three recent versions of Janacek's recently reconstructed Violin Concerto is useful in that it presents the work...

Reviewed in issue 9/1993

Review of Bruckner Symphony No 4, 'Romantic'

Bruckner Symphony No 4, 'Romantic'

There is what I can best describe as a Barbirolli-like quality to Sir Simon Rattle’s conducting of the finale of...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 7/2007

Review of Victoria Officium defunctorum

Victoria Officium defunctorum

This is a remarkable recording. In some ways it is like a rediscovery, for here is an approach not too...

Reviewed in issue 12/1995

Review of New World Jazz

New World Jazz

The Ultimate Jazz Album, this, imaginatively programmed and impeccably realized by all involved. We kick off with the dazzling world...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/1998

Review of Bach & Buxtehude Cantatas

Bach & Buxtehude Cantatas

Of all the Bach cantatas Richter recorded, none have appeared in so many different releases (I have four with different...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 6/2000

Review of Britten Choral Works

Britten Choral Works

Christ’s Nativity, earlier known as The King’s Birthday, a Christmas suite in five movements, receives here its first performance on...

Reviewed in issue 3/1996

Review of Rachmaninov Symphony No 2

Rachmaninov Symphony No 2

Maybe because the sound is so chilly and uninviting I am left with a distinctly monochrome impression of Paavo Järvi's...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 3/2007

Review of Beethoven Eroica Symphony

Beethoven Eroica Symphony

This is the first recording to appear here with the Cleveland Orchestra playing under its new Music Director, and though...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 9/1984


 

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